This book provides for a comprehensive overview of the various areas of European labour law: fundamental rights, free movement of workers and posting, equal treatment, a-typical forms of employment, collective bargaining and collective agreements, restructuring of enterprises and health and safety.

Comparative Concepts of Criminal Law is unique in the sense that it introduces the reader to the fundamental concepts and rules of substantive criminal law in a comparative way and not just to the criminal law system of one specific jurisdiction.

The Limits of Criminal Law explores the normative and performative limits of criminal law at the borders of crime with tort, non-criminal enforcement, medical law, business regulation, administrative sanctions, terrorism and intelligence law.

Legal scholarship is one of the oldest academic disciplines, and the study of law has been passed on from generation to generation as an implicit “savoir faire”. It was presumed that all legal scholars understood the methodology of legal research, making its explicit clarification and justification unnecessary. Over the last decade, the lack of an explicit methodological tradition has become problematic due to the growing interdisciplinary col...

This book offers a comparative introduction to the most important aspects of administrative law in various EU Member States (France, Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom), at the level of the EU and in the United States of America. It aspires to contribute to the ‘transboundary’ understanding of different regimes related to actions and decisions of the administration.

This book provides a systematic and comprehensive overview of the functioning of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and its application by the European Court of Human Rights.

This book addresses key questions about the division of property when a marriage, civil union, de facto relationship, or other close personal relationship ends. The book adopts a conceptual approach to property division, using New Zealand’s current law as a basis for critical analysis and drawing on international and comparative perspectives.

The third edition of Materials on European Criminal Law is a collection of legal instruments including all legal materials relevant for the practice of the Member States of the European Union in one concise volume.

The book provides a systematic introduction to the methods of EU law and the influence of EU law on national methods of law. It discusses the historical, economic and comparative background from a European perspective but also gives attention to the methodological particularities of selected areas of the law and different Member States.

Inherent to and at the very core of the right to a fair criminal trial under Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights is the concept of equality of arms (procedural equality) between the parties, the construct given detailed and innovative treatment in this book.